Sadly I have the same feelings about IRC as you do about forums. I have nothing wrong with it in principle, but I've never found a client I was very happy with. Oh, you might like to check out our Discord (Text and VoIP, like a less shitty Skype) server as well.

I'm not sure what you mean? Skype/TS3 are bad at group text, that's true. Slack/Discord are made for it.

What do you mean "IRC bindings"... Slack has a very nice API for webhooks and other stuff. Discord is eventually bringing that stuff in. If you mean /join/part/me/ban/etc, I'm not aware of any that are shared with IRC besides the /me and it looks kinda dumb imo.

Yes, I mean skype and teamspeak are really bad at such things. By IRC bindings I mean in context of discord. I would not be surprised if there are bindings for IRC eventually, but it is one thing I would use right now, if it was around.

It may be possible to make a discord/irc bridge, though who knows if it would even be wanted, and discord might get upset at it depending on how their setup works. We used to bridge the galactic chat in a game that shall not be named with it's irc before the dev got mad and had a petty shitfit

it makes me excited wondering the OG events such as in-game gatherings, maybe we could make space combat movies i always want to see some ships formation, like fighters flying side by side with capital ships.